Part 2 of 6 of the 1983 drama. Lipton and Jarvis encounter the amazing Stella for the first time. Turner finds work of a fairly eccentric kind. Jake remains mysterious and evasive. For both Lipton and Jarvis, their relationships with their fathers take a dramatic turn.
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01:45Johnny Jarvis was about the only boy in 5C to get a job.
01:49Needless to say, I didn't.
01:51I was hanging about in my dad's weird house,
01:54waiting for him to return.
01:59When he didn't, I arranged to meet Johnny
02:01to tell him about my great adventure.
02:03But he seemed more interested in this bird with funny-coloured hair.
02:07Fancy that.
02:09Rubbish.
02:10Well, I wouldn't do that.
02:12Wouldn't you do that?
02:13Say hello to it for a start.
02:16So, you got anything yet?
02:18Nope.
02:19You been down there?
02:20Where?
02:21Social Security.
02:22No, I don't fancy a bit of a face there.
02:25Yeah, I should imagine.
02:27So, what's with your dad?
02:29Well, it's quite a story.
02:32Yeah?
02:33Yeah.
02:34Well, he was out there long enough.
02:36Yeah, a few days, I suppose.
02:38It's quite a story.
02:39Don't know whether it's his house or what it is.
02:42Well, what happened?
02:44I will tell you.
02:45But I just...
02:46But what?
02:47Well, right now, I just don't believe it myself.
02:50Well, you're not giving much away, are you?
02:53Fancy a trip to Anwell?
02:55What?
02:56Never been further than the Essex Road, have you?
02:58Yeah.
02:59Anwell.
03:01Whenever you like, before Christmas, are we?
03:04Couple of weeks?
03:05Yeah, should be OK.
03:06So, what is it, then?
03:08I'll get the fare.
03:09You been nicking things?
03:10Course not.
03:11I will tell you in the end.
03:14You're on.
03:15Yeah, I've got to go.
03:40My card.
04:00if you're ever in any kind of trouble.
04:18I don't think Paul Turner found it too easy
04:20when he came out of school, either.
04:23But his problems were a bit different.
04:26For which we need a smart appearance.
04:28Thanks, lad.
04:30And the ability to work hard.
04:32Right.
04:34What's under that cap?
04:36My hair's under that cap.
04:37Quite.
04:38But what's your hair like?
04:40It's lovely.
04:41I washed it this morning.
04:42Don't try and be funny, please.
04:44I don't have to try.
04:46Do you want this job?
04:47Course I want the job,
04:48but you're going on about my hair, right?
04:51I thought we wanted someone to clean cars.
04:53Sounds like you're looking for a male model or something.
04:55We're looking for someone with a smart appearance.
04:58What's wrong with my appearance?
05:00This is the fifth job I've been for this week.
05:03You know, sometimes I get there,
05:05and they heard me on the phone,
05:06and they think I'm something different.
05:08And when they catch sight of me,
05:09suddenly the job's gone.
05:11What is this saying?
05:12I ain't a rasta.
05:13I ain't locked up.
05:15You are so ignorant.
05:18I come here for a cleaning job,
05:20and you give me this shit about my hair.
05:23There'll be plenty of others, young man.
05:25I shan't be short.
05:26Bye.
05:27Well, how do you explain it, eh?
05:29Goodbye.
05:32Shit.
05:36Hopeless.
05:44Oi!
05:47Hey, Turner!
05:49How is it, Papa?
05:51It's good, it's good.
05:54Hey, Turner!
05:55Found your girlfriend yet?
05:58Everybody wants me.
06:01Pay more attention.
06:03Got your doll?
06:04Yeah, I got it.
06:06You see her now?
06:07Maybe.
06:09Be a way to support, you know.
06:12I've got no enthusiasm.
06:15I've got to find an enthusiasm, right?
06:17Listen, man.
06:19If you ain't got no enthusiasm,
06:21some enthusiasm or the other will find you out, see?
06:25Because before you know it,
06:26they'll be knocking on your door, right?
06:29And who knows who they may be?
06:31May not be us, you know, Turner.
06:34Could be the front, right?
06:38Could be, Nelson. Could be.
06:45Stand firm!
06:46Don't let them get to you, right?
06:50What's he like?
06:51Hand well.
06:52Dead.
06:53You've become quite cosmopolitan, haven't you, Lipton?
06:56I'm developing into something of a raver.
06:58I'm going to get myself a new head and a new chest.
07:00Then what?
07:01Get married.
07:03How come everybody's got a bird's-eye view of me, eh?
07:05Try a mirror.
07:07It's a trunk.
07:10So what about this Colonel bloke?
07:12I don't know. Something about him.
07:14Yeah? Colonel bad?
07:16Bad.
07:17He wanted me to spy on my old man.
07:40Yeah?
07:41Does Alan Lipton live here?
07:43Yeah.
07:44He said to go round to see him.
07:47No, he's not in.
07:48Oh.
07:49I don't know when he'll be back.
07:51He's away from home a great deal.
07:53Where's your traveller, is he?
07:55He's a friend, lovely.
07:56Look, can I wait?
07:58Might wait till Christmas.
08:00Come in.
08:02I've got to go.
08:03I've got to go.
08:04I've got to go.
08:05I've got to go.
08:06I've got to go.
08:07Come in.
08:31What's she done to your ear?
08:33Died it.
08:35Gets lonely.
08:37I work evenings, you see.
08:39Have a tea?
08:41Ta.
08:45He's with his father, I think.
08:47We don't speak much.
08:49Not him nor his father.
08:58Are you a punk rocker, then?
09:00No.
09:01Oh.
09:03What are you, then?
09:04It would take too long to explain.
09:08Well, I'll tell you this in confidence.
09:11You're the first girl he's ever brought home.
09:14Well, I suppose you brought yourself, really, didn't you?
09:17Yeah.
09:18Well, like I say, it's nice to have company.
09:21Wait a bit.
09:22It might turn up.
09:24You never know.
09:27I should have burned it.
09:32It's not noisy, is it?
09:34Nope.
09:35So how long do you stay up here?
09:37A week or so.
09:38You're a funny fella, aren't you?
09:40I am.
09:41I am a dark horse.
09:43No, you've changed.
09:44You've come on.
09:45So what do you find here?
09:47Wait.
09:48I'll show you.
09:50Stone, eh?
09:52Yeah.
09:56Take a look at this stone.
09:59What?
10:01What are you doing here?
10:03I'm here to see you.
10:05You're here to see me?
10:07Yeah.
10:11Take a look at this stone.
10:13What?
10:30Nice.
10:36Useful, eh?
10:38Whose is it?
10:39My old man must have left it.
10:41You nicked any of it?
10:43So what if I have?
10:45I found a key and all.
10:47I come and go as I want.
10:49What, and your old man just buggered off?
10:52This is a picture of the guy who'd come looking for my old man.
10:56The Colonel.
10:59I found this up here after the Colonel had left.
11:04Must be my dad, see?
11:06Jake Lipton.
11:07It's full of names and dates and places.
11:09So?
11:10I'll tell you what, Johnny.
11:11All round our way, all the pubs,
11:13times to meet people, too.
11:15Your old man bent, then, you reckon?
11:17Yeah, must be.
11:18No, you want to get yourself something.
11:20Don't get mixed up in all of it.
11:22You don't know what it is, do you?
11:25Get myself what?
11:27There are no jobs left.
11:28Not for people like me.
11:30There are only shit jobs left.
11:33Apprentice?
11:34They wouldn't apprentice me to a milkman.
11:37How would they?
11:38Come on, you know it.
11:40I don't even fancy working.
11:43Know what?
11:44Well, I don't know, do I?
11:49I'm hungry.
11:50There's a pub.
11:53Oh, we're going to have to score this year, Lipton.
11:56Otherwise, we're going to turn into a couple of pofters.
12:00Might not be such a bad idea.
12:18You're not in front of that gate.
12:21You're not in front of that gate.
12:23You're not in front of that.
12:27Three pounds, twenty-five grand.
12:39Are you receiving benefit?
12:41You're entitled to that.
12:43No way.
12:46Now, we could try you on one of these employment induction courses.
12:50Eh?
12:51It's a scheme for young people who are not certain what kind of work they would like to undertake.
12:55Then there's group work, interview techniques.
12:59How do you mean, group work, interview techniques?
13:02Well, that's the technique of coping with an interview,
13:04in the sense of a one-to-one encounter with someone behind a desk,
13:07like what we're having now.
13:08Ah.
13:09Communication.
13:10That's the name of the game.
13:14It's just possible, in March,
13:16we might be able to get you onto the youth opportunities programme.
13:20Now, there's a training scheme which gives employment training in the building trade,
13:24which starts...
13:25Yeah, that sounds OK.
13:28Right.
13:30Well, what do you think?
13:34Is there something bothering you?
13:36I know that, Giza.
13:40You all right?
13:41I'll be back.
13:42What about these books?
13:50Turner told me later
13:52that he didn't really understand why he followed Manny Napoli.
13:59I think it was because he could understand the racialist bit from a middle-aged car salesman,
14:04but not from a kid out of his own class.
14:22With stratagems and bruises, I could be a doctor.
14:25Policies and bruises, I could be a writer with a growing reputation.
14:29I could be a ticket man at Fulham railway station.
14:32What a waste.
14:35What a waste.
14:38What a waste.
14:41What a waste.
14:44Because I'm trying to play a fool in a six-piece band.
14:47First nine nerves in me one-night stand.
14:50I should be glad to be so inclined.
14:52What a waste.
14:53What a waste.
14:54What a load of mine.
14:55What a waste.
14:56What a load of mine.
14:57What a waste.
15:20What a waste.
15:24How much can you make?
15:27What are you, then?
15:28I wouldn't bother to explain it to you.
15:30She's a crackdown.
15:31A what?
15:33She likes David Bowie, Chewbacca Army and Madness.
15:36And she wears...
15:37Manny trousers!
15:40I don't care if she's Mrs. Thatcher, mate. She ain't going down there.
15:44And you're a mud, I can tell.
15:45The man's mad.
15:47You got a mud look about you.
15:48He must be off your head.
15:50She'll let anyone down there.
15:52They've all got bowler hats and suits on.
15:54They all park wall-to-wall down there, reading the Daily Telegraph or something.
15:58We're off. Go on.
15:59All right.
16:00Come on, let's go.
16:13Appendix One. Examples of work experience schemes.
16:16Work experience?
16:18What do you mean?
16:19You mean just experience at work?
16:20Like I have work experience.
16:22This is something new.
16:23It's like a course, like a special training scheme.
16:26How special?
16:27One, safety on site.
16:29Two, excavation.
16:31Three, trench timbering.
16:32Trench timbering.
16:33Four, erecting and dismantling of platforms, scaffolding, ladders and planks.
16:39I don't want any more. I've heard enough already.
16:41Stephen?
16:42Stephen, go fetch that ball out of the kitchen.
16:48How much are they paying you for this work experience?
16:5019 pounds, 50 pence.
16:52Boy, what are these people trying to do to you?
16:56They're trying to finish you off down there.
16:58For 1950.
16:591950?
17:01You do it.
17:03Yeah.
17:07Keep you away from those boys.
17:10I'll do it. I told them already I want to work, right?
17:13But it's going to be hard.
17:15Yes, it's hard.
17:17Work experience is hard.
17:21It's hard.
17:26It's all right.
17:33It's all right.
17:35What is that with you?
17:38Nothing.
17:41Johnny.
17:42What?
17:44Nothing.
17:47Well, you can't find someone else to hang around with or do not know.
17:50What does that mean?
17:51You know what that means.
17:52Do I?
17:53Yeah.
17:54Oh, with the brillo pad here doing that lad from upstairs.
17:56So?
17:58Well, who pays for their drinks?
17:59I mean, are they working?
18:00Is that lad from upstairs working, is he?
18:02I pay my way. I pay my bit here, don't I?
18:04Johnny, stop it.
18:07He was never like this.
18:10I was never so old, was I?
18:12Well, every night, cold, gay.
18:13Oh, twice a sod in a week, that's all.
18:16Now, don't you let me hear used language like that in front of your mother again.
18:19Do you hear me?
18:22Sorry.
18:27More like my Johnny.
18:30Is it now, is it?
18:31Is it what?
18:33I don't know.
18:35Maybe I'm a late developer.
18:41I'm off out.
18:42Work in the morning.
18:43I know.
18:44Well?
18:45Listen.
18:47I know that job backwards now.
18:48I learned it in two and a half days.
18:50Should never have jumped in so quick.
18:52Should have got some qualifications.
18:53Should have got a proper apprenticeship.
18:55Go out and get one, then.
18:56I will.
18:57Good.
18:58Because I never had any qualifications.
18:59No, you didn't, did you?
19:00And look where it got you, eh?
19:01Eh?
19:02Stop it, you two, can't you?
19:04Sorry, Dad.
19:05Sorry, man.
19:07Sorry.
19:08Go now.
19:17What have I done?
19:19He's a good boy, is Johnny.
19:21And you've never been anything other than a good father.
19:24Yeah, I know that, love.
19:27Don't make it any easier, though, does it?
19:33Now, all that was last year before Christmas.
19:35So what have you done with books since then?
19:37Then there was a roll of money, too.
19:39Have you been back?
19:40No, not since.
19:42That's full of appointments and addresses, right?
19:44We went one.
19:45One what?
19:46He'd written in a meet in his pub.
19:47So we went.
19:48We thought we might see him, but we didn't.
19:50So what happened?
19:52Weird pub.
19:53Really weird.
19:55Why am I being told all this, please?
19:57Because Wednesday week, he's written in this address,
19:59underlined and underneath my name, Alan, right there.
20:02See it?
20:03Well, so where do I come in?
20:04Well, you can come with us.
20:07I can't wait you two out.
20:09Love to.
20:10So, I like excitement.
20:14Jam roll.
20:16Don't rub it in your ear, will you?
20:18Now, what gives the idea I might do that?
20:20Well, punks do, don't they?
20:22She ain't a punk.
20:24So?
20:25What is she, then?
20:26She is an armpit.
20:28We're all armpits, ain't you heard?
20:30We give our mums and dads our wage packets.
20:32We never go out.
20:33We don't drink.
20:34We're in bed by half past nine.
20:36We're always polite to everybody.
20:39We never wear precarious clothes or listen to music
20:41or go to concerts, right?
20:43It's the new youth movement.
20:44The armpits, we call them.
20:46It's great.
20:47You're going the wrong way about it, son.
20:53I'm privileged, really, to be asked.
20:55Wednesday week it is.
20:57One of the boys now, still.
20:59Come quietly and there'll be no trouble.
21:25Hello.
21:26All right?
21:27How you doing, Turner?
21:28Come and have a seat.
21:29Yeah, all right.
21:30Excuse me, then.
21:31This is her girlfriend.
21:32Oh, yeah?
21:33You can only afford one.
21:34Nice.
21:35Can I have three halves of lager, please?
21:36Do you want a drink?
21:37No, I'm all right.
21:38Just three halves of lager.
21:39That's for you.
21:40Yeah?
21:41Turner, social security.
21:42Oh, yeah, don't go.
21:43Me neither.
21:44Borrowed from the old lady.
21:45I don't know why he's so bleedin' choosy.
21:46She don't have parents.
21:47Useful.
21:48She squats.
21:49And rubs over on her side.
21:50So, what you doing here, Turner?
21:53Having a drink.
21:54What are you doing?
21:55I'm looking for a relative.
21:57Wait.
21:58Look who it is.
21:59It's Manning.
22:00What is this?
22:01Some kind of reunion?
22:02That's him.
22:03Who?
22:04My dad, talking with Manning.
22:05What's your dad got with Manning?
22:06Come on.
22:07Look.
22:08Come on!
22:13Funny people.
22:15Now we're all alone.
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23:31Why don't you tell me what's going on?
23:32Because it's complicated.
23:33Sometimes, it's one thing.
23:34Sometimes, it's another.
23:35A little matter of somethings that fell off the back of a lorry, that's all.
23:36Yes, sir?
23:37I'll let the sod go
23:38What's up?
23:40Oh, let the sod go.
23:42What's Manning got to do with this?
23:44That lad?
23:46We just use him for odd jobs from time to time.
23:49That's all.
23:51See?
23:54See?
24:07Look, I've told you, I'm disgusted.
24:11I didn't keep no pictures of him.
24:13I didn't keep letters, right?
24:15As far as I'm concerned, he is dead and buried,
24:17and I wish it had stayed that way. I'm sorry.
24:19Lovey.
24:20Stop that, can't you?
24:22You used to be a nice boy.
24:24Now I've got a lad round the house, don't I?
24:26He does nothing.
24:28He doesn't even bother to draw a doll.
24:30He makes money from me purse when I'm not here.
24:33I don't get benefit for you.
24:35Do I have to remind you I work for you every night, my lad?
24:39I don't enjoy going down that hotel.
24:42You never showed it before, did you?
24:44Showed what?
24:46You're so bloody bitter. I can see it in the way you move.
24:49I can see it in the way you sit at that table
24:51in the middle of the night with your bloody bags at the ready.
24:54I can see it in everything about you.
24:56Well, get out!
24:57Go on, get out of the lot of you.
25:01He'll get in touch again.
25:04What do you kids think you're doing?
25:09Johnny Jarvis!
25:11What?
25:12Johnny Jarvis here!
25:13What's that?
25:14You'd better come, it's your dad. You'd better come now.
25:22DOOR CREAKS
25:30They called the doctor. He hasn't come yet.
25:32What's this?
25:33It's his tea. He dropped his tea.
25:35Dad? Dad, it's me.
25:38I don't know what it is.
25:40Dad, the doctor's come in.
25:41Johnny?
25:43He's speaking.
25:44Johnny?
25:45Dad, don't talk, please. He'll be here in a minute.
25:48Goodbye, Johnny.
25:49Don't talk, please.
25:51Is he going to be all right?
25:53I don't know, Mum, I don't know.
25:55Don't you ever take this off, eh?
25:57Don't you ever take it off.
26:06Oi, stick the brain!
26:09Davis wants to see us.
26:19DOOR CREAKS
26:37How's your day?
26:38I'm no better, Mr Davis.
26:39Oh, sorry about that.
26:44Now, about this course you were asking me about...
26:47That's it, yeah.
26:48And you'll get your whatever...
26:57Right.
26:58Now, tell me, Johnny Jarvis,
27:00why should I let a good lad like you go?
27:03Look at it from my point of view.
27:05There ain't that much work round here.
27:07Now, supposing you get yourself these qualifications,
27:10you'd be off, wouldn't you?
27:12Oh, I don't know where it might lead, Mr Davis.
27:14I mean, I want to see a future.
27:16I don't know where it might lead.
27:18I'd get money for it.
27:20Yeah? I don't.
27:22Now, all I want from you, Johnny Jarvis,
27:24is a promise that you'll give me some of your time when you're done.
27:27Oh, of course I will, Mr Davis, yeah.
27:29Then it's a deal. Start in the autumn.
27:31Oh, thanks, Mr Davis.
27:32No trouble. Have a good lay.
27:34Yes, Mr Davis.
27:35Go on, then. And you take care of your dad.
27:37I will, Mr Davis.
27:39I do.
27:41Good morning, Mr Davis.
27:43Oh, hi. Hi, lady.
27:45Opportunities? Huge opportunities?
27:48Opportunities to do what?
27:51To lie around and commit various offences?
27:54I will ask Kenny.
27:56No, not Kenny.
27:58You two, into the car.
28:01Now.
28:02Mum, I don't want nothing to do with Kenny.
28:05Kenny is a good carpenter.
28:09Now, you listen to me.
28:11For three months now, you do your course, right?
28:14You finish the training.
28:15Now, where are the jobs?
28:17I don't see any jobs.
28:19You think I want you to finish up like those boys on the street?
28:23Think of nothing but the guitar music and ting?
28:25Come on, let's go.
28:29In your position, you take a job.
28:31You take any job, okay?
28:34You take any job, okay?
28:45Yes! Yes!
28:56Hey, boy.
28:58You know what you're looking at?
29:00No.
29:01The black economy.
29:03You get it? The black economy.
29:05Yeah, I get it.
29:12Ten out of ten is not very many
29:14when you're working with someone as clever as Kenny.
29:18I'm sure.
29:25You hear the noise this van is making?
29:27I hear it.
29:29You think it should be making a noise like that?
29:31No. No.
29:33I agree with you, boy.
29:44I don't think it should sound like that, neither.
29:47No. There, too, I am also in agreement with you.
29:51Is this your van?
29:53For a small down payment, it could be yours.
29:56Out.
29:58Certainly, officer.
30:02You see these backlights?
30:04I see them.
30:06Shouldn't they be on?
30:08No.
30:09And why is that, may I ask?
30:11Because I just turned them off.
30:13Oh, a bit of a comedian, eh?
30:15Well, why don't you go round and turn them on again, then?
30:17Sunshine.
30:18Certainly, officer.
30:28Hear that?
30:30Hear that sound, Isabel?
30:32Yes. And now the lights.
30:35I will press the appropriate button.
30:45And when did you stop?
30:47Never stop to discuss things with a policeman. Never.
30:51Anyway, this van is not completely insured.
30:54And I don't possess an M.O.T. certificate of roadworthiness.
30:58Or a driver's license.
31:00Excuse me, Kenny.
31:02You'll find yourself a nice gal to do that.
31:04I'll see you tomorrow morning.
31:06Right.
31:07Half six.
31:08Yeah.
31:09Hey, you enjoy life in the black economy, eh?
31:12Eh?
31:26I fancy being a crackdown.
31:28It wouldn't be sincere, though, would it?
31:30What, I like two-way army?
31:31Not enough. Not enough.
31:33I've got nothing against baggy trousers.
31:35You just want things to go with being a crackdown.
31:37Such as?
31:38Huh?
31:40Do you fancy being a crackdown, Lipton?
31:42They couldn't afford me.
31:44Suits you, you know.
31:46What does?
31:47Not working.
31:48Yeah?
31:49Yeah.
31:50When we first met, he was nowhere, now look at him.
31:52He's a right cocky little squirt now, ain't ya?
31:54Yep.
31:55Anyway, I've got to get going.
31:57Is your dad still?
31:59Yeah.
32:00Just lies there, that's all.
32:02Well, see you, Johnny.
32:03Oh, I won't be around the weekend.
32:05Overtime.
32:06Yeah, we need it.
32:08Nice.
32:10Pardon, Anne.
32:11Is it?
32:24Is he going back to college?
32:25Yep, I think so.
32:27What about you?
32:29Oh.
32:30I did a couple of weeks in a shop still.
32:33That was enough for me.
32:36What's this?
32:37My arm, innit?
32:39Soon as he's gone, sneaky little bugger.
32:42Do you want me to move it?
32:43Suit yourself.
32:44Oh, come on.
32:46It isn't fair.
32:47On who?
32:48On him.
32:49Is that why you like two boys still?
32:51Cancel each other out, do they?
32:53Oh, give over, it isn't fair.
32:59He's right, though, about you.
33:01And he's so nice, Alan.
33:03Look, the way I look at it,
33:05everyone's got to have a purpose, right?
33:07So what's your purpose?
33:08I'm going to find my dad.
33:10And then what?
33:11Go in with him.
33:12Then what?
33:13Whatever he's got on, go away with him.
33:15And Johnny?
33:17Johnny's on a wheel, like one of them mice you see in a pet shop.
33:21Johnny's just on a wheel.
33:23How are you going to find your dad?
33:25He'll find me.
33:27Secretive little bastard, isn't he?
33:29Just like your mum.
33:30That didn't go down too well.
33:32Apart from not being thrilled by the comparison,
33:35I was feeling guilty about her.
33:37I'd moved out and left her to her fags and her books.
33:41I spent all my time with Stella
33:44in this rather seedy-looking squat,
33:47trying to get to know her better.
33:54Do me a favour.
33:56I just want to look at them.
33:57You're insatiable, you are.
33:59I'm 17 and I've never seen a pair of real girls' breasts.
34:02But it won't just be a look, will it?
34:04Not with you, it'll be a lot more than a look.
34:06A look and a feel.
34:08There you are, you see?
34:10I thought you was loose.
34:12Well, I ain't loose.
34:13I may look loose, but I ain't.
34:15Squatters, I don't know.
34:16I rue the day I come to live here.
34:18You can always go back to mummy.
34:23Somebody ate all my cheese.
34:25And why are you spending half your time
34:27with your nose stuck in that notebook of your dad's?
34:29I can't imagine.
34:30There's another date, the middle of June,
34:32and it's marked at the end.
34:34Where?
34:35Hope and Anger.
34:36It's our last chance.
34:40Tell you what, take it off at the weekend.
34:43You what?
34:44There's something to look forward to.
34:46You're sick, you.
34:48Next week?
34:49Week after that?
34:51October?
34:53October.
34:55Christmas.
34:56Next Christmas.
35:00You see, I just want to feel
35:02that our relationship is going somewhere.
35:04It's going out the bleeding window, mate.
35:06That's where it's going.
35:07Bloody is.
35:09If you won't take your bra off by next Christmas,
35:11it is going out the window.
35:12I mean, where's the future in a relationship like that?
35:15I mean, you might never take it off.
35:17You might not take it off by the Christmas after next Christmas.
35:19We might be staggering around in crutches by the year 2000.
35:22You might still never have taken it off.
35:31I mean, you can wait for something too long, you know.
35:34You can wait for something too long.
35:37Tough.
35:42What do you read in them books of yours?
35:44I educate myself.
35:46People think that people like me can't educate themselves,
35:48but I do.
35:53I bet my dad's someone remarkable.
35:56I bet he's unusual, like me.
35:59I bet he's...
36:00Will you stop going on about your dad?
36:02It gives me the creeps.
36:06HORN HONKS
36:10I'm going out.
36:11Where?
36:12Got a song on at last, are you?
36:14Or are you?
36:15Oi! You always leave unannounced, do you?
36:23Listen, I want you to keep away, OK?
36:25Keep away from what?
36:26The Hope and Anchor.
36:28Look, Dad...
36:29You nicked that little book of mine.
36:31It's a heavy pub. I don't want you getting involved.
36:34Some very nasty people go there.
36:36Does that include you?
36:37We just employ one or two of the larger ones, that's all.
36:41Oh, just wipe it out.
36:45That should see you right.
36:48Dad! Dad!
36:58Eight o'clock, Dad.
37:00Here with our weekly Radio 2 selection...
37:02What?
37:03..of the best sounds around from the world of pipe and electronic organs.
37:06Starting off with a visit to a near farm in Hawley South...
37:09What's that?
37:10I don't know.
37:11I don't know.
37:12I don't know.
37:13I don't know.
37:14I don't know.
37:15A visit to a near farm in Hawley South...
37:32What's up?
37:33Nothing.
37:36I don't know why you read those books all night.
37:38You don't start till the autumn.
37:40It's only two months away.
37:42Maybe.
37:45I don't understand none of it, Mum.
37:47No?
37:48No.
37:49Some lines and squares and P this and V that.
37:52If you don't want to, Johnny...
37:54It's not that I don't want to.
37:56I mean, I want to.
37:57It's just that I'm thick, isn't I?
37:59I'm stupid.
38:00Why don't I just go out and get a dentist's cap and have done with it?
38:03Why don't I get myself a frigging Commissioner's uniform?
38:05Johnny.
38:06I'm sorry.
38:07You've got no call to...
38:08No, I know I've no call.
38:11I haven't been out for nearly a month.
38:13No-one said...
38:14Oh, no-one said anything.
38:16But there's ways, isn't there?
38:18There's ways of looking and not talking that say as much as anything.
38:21That boy...
38:22That boy left home, I know.
38:24Didn't say I was going, did I?
38:26I'm not like that, Mum.
38:27You're a good boy, Johnny.
38:28Oh, give that a rest, can't you?
38:30Give up that stupid book if you don't understand it.
38:44Hello.
38:45I'm not very bright.
38:47Stop it.
38:48Can I have a C.S.E., please?
38:50Oh, get on.
38:51And two on Wednesdays.
38:53What came would you like?
38:55Oh, I'd like a C.S.E. in nuclear physics.
39:00Sorry, we run out.
39:06They do, though.
39:07They think we're bloody stupid.
39:10It's because we can't write P for Q and V for R.
39:13Do you know what I written?
39:14I written the geezer who thought those numbers up's stupid.
39:16That's my opinion.
39:19You go out.
39:22Yeah, I'm going to a meeting.
39:25With him and that girl?
39:27He won't just meet a girl.
39:29It's just a favour to him.
39:30I don't see him and Stella no more.
39:32It's just a favour to him.
39:33Johnny, was you and that girl...?
39:35No, she was nothing to do with me.
39:37Ain't any girl who has anything to do with me.
39:40I'm an horrible monster.
39:42A repulsive creature.
39:44Johnny, you take care of yourself, won't you?
39:47Go into any meeting with those two.
39:49Yeah, I will.
39:52I'm going with Michael!
39:54Jameson!
39:56Jameson! Jameson! Jameson!
40:00Jameson! Jameson! Jameson!
40:04Jameson! Jameson! Jameson!
40:13Shit.
40:21Oi!
40:23Again?
40:24You can't go on meeting like this.
40:26Tell him the money was to stay away.
40:28Tell him there's a lot more.
40:30He knows that.
40:31Listen, son. Take my advice.
40:34Don't get mixed up in any of this, all right?
40:36Not any of it.
40:38It's up here you're mean.
40:40I know.
40:42And it is not my meeting.
40:44I simply have business here, that is all.
40:47Same as your daddy does.
40:50Don't that make it your meeting?
40:52Don't start getting academic with me, please.
40:54Now, come on, we're late.
40:57Look, take his advice, can't you?
41:00All right?
41:03See you afterwards.
41:07Oi, not up there, eh?
41:09We're not catching the blacks up there, are we, then?
41:11Look, I've told you there's some useful lads hanging around in there.
41:14That's all there is to it.
41:16Now leave it alone.
41:22Look, that platform up there, if we go up there, we can see through the window.
41:26All right.
41:39Come on.
41:53Manny.
42:02He's given him something.
42:04It's a backhander.
42:10Oh!
42:19Argh!
42:21Christ almighty!
42:25CAR HORN BLARES
42:29CAR HORN BLARES
42:34CAR HORN BLARES
42:39CAR HORN BLARES
42:43Jesus, Gav.
43:05Just stand back, please.
43:08Stand back.
43:13What happened?
43:17CAR HORN BLARES
43:37CAR HORN BLARES
43:53Hiya, Dad. Hello.
43:59Ah.
44:02I went to the law to find you.
44:04Oh, I thought you might.
44:07They weren't too helpful.
44:09They've got this prejudice against me.
44:12Hmm.
44:19What's that?
44:21Lemonade. What do you think?
44:24Blimey.
44:26Hey, steady.
44:29You got Borstal, then?
44:31Who did?
44:33Your friend Manny.
44:35I thought he was yours.
44:37Yeah. Won't see him for more than a year.
44:41No.
44:44What did you do, Dane?
44:46When?
44:48With your life.
44:50I bred racehorses.
44:52Bit of space travel.
44:54Prime Minister of Uganda for a while.
44:57Spot a brain surgery.
44:59I ain't gonna get no sense out of you, am I?
45:03No.
45:05Why did Manny do it?
45:07Someone set him up to it.
45:10Yeah. I suppose it was your friend the Colonel.
45:13I saw him talking to...
45:15Leave it out, Alan.
45:17You don't understand how it works.
45:21You don't understand how it works.
45:25What happens when the bag's full up?
45:28Stick it round.
45:30OK.
45:32So I went back to see him a few days later,
45:35but predictably he disappeared.
45:38As I was leaving the hospital, I heard a nasty shot.
45:42A fat man looking for my dad.
46:51Dad.
46:53Dad.